UCLA Researchers Now One Step Closer to Controlled Engineering of Nanocatalysts
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Currently, some 20 percent of the world's industrial production is based on catalysts — molecules that can quicken the pace of chemical reactions by factors of billions. Oil, pharmaceuticals,...
All Systems Go: Space Technology Course Launches UCLA Engineering Students into Space Careers
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin With leading aerospace companies, research labs and testing grounds run by NASA and the Air Force, a workhorse space launch facility, and much more, Southern California’s aerospace community is unmatched in...
UCLA Researchers Discover General Recipe for Making Antimicrobial Agents that Kill Bacteria
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Many antimicrobial peptides in our immune system kill bacteria by punching holes in their membranes. Scientists have been researching antimicrobial peptides for more than 30 years, and...
William Yeh named to Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout William W-G. Yeh, distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the inaugural holder of the...
Conquering the New Energy Frontier
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Faculty at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are working across several areas to make energy cleaner, renewable, and more efficient. This research ranges from the large system-scales of the...
UCLA Researchers Engineer E. coli to Produce Record-Setting Amounts of Alternative Fuel
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Altering microbe's metabolism leads to big jump in n-butanol production By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a way to produce normal butanol —...
In Memoriam: Paul Baran MS ’59 laid the foundation for the Internet
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Paul Baran MS ’59, a distinguished engineer, inventor and entrepreneur whose best-known invention of packet-switching laid the technological foundation for the Internet, has died. He was 84. Baran received his bachelor’s...
New Method for Studying Molecule Reactions a Breakthrough in Organic Chemistry
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA nanotech research mimics enzymes in directing chemical reactions By Mike Rodewald Good chemists are passive-aggressive — they manipulate molecules without actually touching them. In a feat of manipulating substances...
UCLA Engineers Demonstrate Use of Proteins as Raw Material for Biofuels, Biorefining
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Two types of raw materials are currently used for biorefining and biofuel production: carbohydrates and lipids. Biofuels like ethanol are derived from carbohydrate raw materials such as sugars and lignocellulose, while...